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The Proclamation Of The Gospel Is Destined Primarily To The Poor, To Those Who Often Lack The Essentials For A Decent Life. The Good News Is First Announced To Them, That God Loves Them Before All Others And Comes To Visit Them Through The Acts Of Charity That The Disciples Of Christ Carry Out In His Name.

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The Proclamation Of The

Pope Francis

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The Proclamation Of The Gospel Is Destined Primarily To The Poor, To Those Who Often Lack The Essentials For A Decent Life. The Good News Is First Announced To Them, That God Loves Them Before All Others And Comes To Visit Them Through The Acts Of Charity That The Disciples Of Christ Carry Out In His Name.

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Impossible Things

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We Can Observe The Fourth Commandment By Loving Visits To Our Aging Grandparents

When We Give Help To The Poor, We Are Not Doing The Work Of Aid Agencies 'in A Christian Way'. Those Are Good, It Is A Decent Thing To Do - Aid Work Is Good And Quite Human - But It Is Not Christian Poverty, Which St. Paul Desires Of Us And Preaches To Us. Christian Poverty Is That I Give Of My Own, And Not Of That Which Is Left Over - I Give Even That, Which I Need For Myself, To The Poor Person, Because I Know That He Enriches Me. Why Does The Poor Person Enrich Me? Because Jesus Himself Told Us That He Is In The Poor Person.

The Worldwide Financial And Economic Crisis Seems To Highlight Their Distortions And Above All The Gravely Deficient Human Perspective, Which Reduces Man To One Of His Needs Alone, Namely, Consumption. Worse Yet, Human Beings Themselves Are Nowadays Considered As Consumer Goods Which Can Be Used And Thrown Away.

I Want The Church To Go Out Onto The Streets, I Want Us To Resist Everything Worldly, Everything Static, Everything Comfortable...eve Rything That Might Make Us Closed In On Ourselves.

I See The Church As A Field Hospital After Battle. It Is Useless To Ask A Seriously Injured Person If He Has High Cholesterol And About The Level Of His Blood Sugars. You Have To Heal His Wounds. Then We Can Talk About Everything Else.

He Who Doesn't Pray To The Lord Prays To The Devil.

The Person Who Gossips Is A Terrorist Who Drops A Bomb, Destroys, And They Destroy Others.

We Need To See Each Child As A Gift To Be Welcomed, Cherished, And Protected.

To All Of You, I Repeat: Do Not Let Yourselves Be Robbed Of Hope! Do Not Let Yourselves Be Robbed Of Hope! And Not Only That, But I Say To Us All: Let Us Not Rob Others Of Hope, Let Us Become Bearers Of Hope!

As The Son Of An Immigrant Family, I Am Happy To Be A Guest In U.s, Which Was Largely Built By Such Families.

The Son Of God Became Incarnate In The Souls Of Men To Instill The Feeling Of Brotherhood. All Are Brothers And All Children Of God.

These Two Criteria Are Like The Pillars Of True Love: Deeds, And The Gift Of Self.

In This Quest To Seek And Find God In All Things, There Is Still An Area Of Uncertainty. There Must Be. If A Person Says That He Met God With Total Certainty And Is Not Touched By A Margin Of Uncertainty, Then This Is Not Good.

I Address A Strong Appeal From My Heart That The Dignity And Safety Of The Worker Always Be Protected.

It Is No Easy Task To Overcome The Bitter Legacy Of Injustices, Hostility And Mistrust Left By The Conflict. It Can Only Be Done By Overcoming Evil With Good.

Overcoming Evil

Even Today, After The Second Failure Of Another World War, Perhaps One Can Speak Of A Third War, One Fought Piecemeal, With Crimes, Massacres, Destruction.

You Have A Specific And Important Mission, That Of Keeping Alive The Relationship Between The Faith And The Cultures Of The Peoples To Whom You Belong. . . . [w]e Have To Follow Christ Along The Concrete Path Of Our Daily Lives So That He Can Transform Us.

Dear Young People, Pray With Me For Peace In The World.

We Must Not Be Afraid Of Solidarity; Rather Let Us Make All We Have And Are Available To God.

Profound Peace, Spiritual Consolation, Love Of God And Love Of All Things In God - This Is The Sign That You Are On This Right Path.

Dear Friends, Sometimes We May Be Tempted To Allow Ourselves Be Overtaken By Laziness Or Despondency, Especially When Faced With The Hardships And Trials Of Life. In These Cases, Do Not Lose Heart, But Invoke The Holy Spirit, So That With The Gift Of Fortitude He Can Lift Our Hearts And Communicate New Vigor And Enthusiasm To Our Lives And Our Following Jesus.

Let's Say 'yes' To Life And 'no' To Death.

When Money, Instead Of Man, Is At The Center Of The System, When Money Becomes An Idol, Men And Women Are Reduced To Simple Instruments Of A Social And Economic System, Which Is Characterized, Better Yet Dominated, By Profound Inequalities. So We Discard Whatever Is Not Useful To This Logic; It Is This Attitude That Discards Children And Older People, And Is Now Affecting The Young.

We Need Courage If We Are To Be Faithful To The Gospel.

I'd Say I Dream In Esperanto. Sometimes I Remember Some Dreams In Another Language, But Dreaming In Languages No, But Figures Yes, My Psychology Is This Way.

When Evangelizers Rise From Prayer, Their Hearts Are More Open; Freed Of Self-absorption, They Are Desirous Of Doing Good And Sharing Their Lives With Others.

I Entered The Diocesan Seminary. I Liked The Dominicans, And I Had Dominican Friends. But Then I Chose The Society Of Jesus, Which I Knew Well Because The Seminary Was Entrusted To The Jesuits. Three Things In Particular Struck Me About The Society: The Missionary Spirit, Community And Discipline.

We Are All Missionary Disciples

In Confession, Jesus Welcomes Us With All Our Sinfulness, To Give Us A New Heart, Capable Of Loving As He Loves.

May Both Of Them [saint John Xxiii And Saint John Paul Ii] Teach Us Not To Be Scandalized By The Wounds Of Christ And To Enter Ever More Deeply Into The Mystery Of Divine Mercy, Which Always Hopes And Always Forgives, Because It Always Loves.

Before God And His People I Express My Sorrow For The Sins And Grave Crimes Of Clerical Sexual Abuse Committed Against You. And I Humbly Ask Forgiveness.

We Also Try To Reach Out To People Who Are Far Away, Via Digital Means, The Web And Brief Messaging.

If Someone Is Gay And Is Searching For The Lord And Has Good Will, Then Who Am I To Judge Him? ... The Problem Is Not Having This Tendency, No, We Must Be Brothers And Sisters To One Another. The Problem Is In Making A Lobby Of This Tendency: A Lobby Of Misers, A Lobby Of Politicians, A Lobby Of Masons, So Many Lobbies.

Migrants And Refugees Are Not Pawns On The Chessboard Of Humanity. They Are Children, Women And Men Who Leave Or Who Are Forced To Leave Their Homes For Various Reasons, Who Share A Legitimate Desire For Knowing And Having, But Above All For Being More

Dearest Brothers And Sisters Who Are So Persecuted, I Know How Much You Suffer, I Know That You Are Stripped Of Everything. I Am With You In The Faith Of The One Who Has Conquered Evil!

I Don't Know If I Had Success Or Not. But I Am Afraid Of Myself. Why Am I Afraid Of Myself? I Always Feel - I Don't Know - Weak In The Sense Of Not Having Power And Also Power Is A Fleeting Thing, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.

Only Trust In God Can Transform Doubts Into Certainty, Evil Into Good, Night Into Radiant Dawn.

The Fact Is That Woman Was Taken From A Rib.

Let Us Not Allow Ourselves To Be Robbed Of Missionary Enthusiasm!

We Hear Many Offers From The World Around Us; But Let Us Take Up God's Offer Instead: His Is A Caress Of Love. For God, We Are Not Numbers, We Are Important, Indeed We Are The Most Important Thing To Him; Even If We Are Sinners, We Are What Is Closest To His Heart.

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